You Wish: A High School Reverse Harem Romance by Sophie Stern

Author:Sophie Stern [Stern, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sophie Stern
Published: 2021-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

14

Riley

I’m a fool.

I’m a complete, total, absolute fool.

What was I thinking?

I wasn’t.

That’s the real answer.

I wasn’t thinking.

At least, I wasn’t thinking with my head.

When Colin added me on Rosepetal, I should have left it alone. I shouldn’t have even accepted his request, but I did. That led to us chatting. That led to us playing a little game together that ended both sooner than it should have and much later than it should have. How that works, I’ll never know.

I try to sleep it off, and somehow, I manage to pass out and avoid any sort of dreaming-about him scenario. Besides, I have stuff to do. Notebook or not, I don’t really have time for someone like Colin in my life.

I manage to avoid the Legends the rest of the week. I don’t ask for my notebook back. I don’t chase down Maddox. I definitely don’t answer any of Colin’s many Rosepetal DMs. Maddox and Jasper both add me as friends, though, and I leave those pending. For now, at least. I just don’t think I can deal with anything else like that. Not right now.

I have too many other things demanding my attention: too many other things that are taking up my time. I need to know what’s going on with my dad. I need to make sure that he’s okay. That’s my focus right now.

Well, that and not failing all of my classes.

Somehow, I make it to the weekend, and then it’s time for me to visit my dad. When I lived in Destiny, I bussed or walked everywhere, so I don’t have my own car. I do, however, have a license, and Aunt Em gives me her car for the day. I drop her off at work at the flower shop with the understanding that I’ll pick her up before they close at five, and then I head to see my dad.

It’s my first time seeing him in a little while, and I’m nervous. I wear a pretty red dress with white flowers on it, black strappy sandals, and I keep my hair pulled back in a tight bun. I probably should just wear jeans and a t-shirt because my dad isn’t going to notice, but I miss him. I want to look nice.

Before I know it, I’m sitting across from him, and we’re speaking face-to-face. It’s real. We’re both here, and it’s real.

“Hello, sweetheart.”

My dad looks like hell.

I grip the hard plastic phone that lets me talk to him, and I stare at him through the glass. I wish this was a real, face-to-face visit in a little room with nothing between us, but this was the only meeting I was offered. I’ll take what I can get these days. If the guards don’t want to let us hang out in a room, then at least we have some time to talk here. I press my hand to the glass on my side, and my dad repeats the action on his own side.

“Hi, Dad.”

I manage to choke the words out, but it takes everything I have not to start crying right here.

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